SECOND PERSON

The odds are you realize there are three personae to use in writing. You know a story can be written in first person, a situation where the character talks directly to you. Of course, it?s done by the writer, but the atmosphere created is of the character speaking only to you. It?s a much harder way of telling a story since the author, via the protagonist, (hero or heroine), can only address what he or she knows and can see.

You?re alerted to the fact, if you?ve read any of Bill?s 37 stories, the majority of those novels are written in the first person. It?s the way to bring the reader closest to the story, as you?re only too well aware.

In many of your reading experiences you?ve read stories written in the third person. You more than likely don?t enjoy them as much because you feel somewhat distanced from the story and the characters. You also somewhat wonder ?who? is telling you all these things when the story is a third person narrative. Your detachment may range from uncomfortable to simply not bringing you ?into the story? the way you?d like. You can still understand it, of course, and even be amused and entertained, but only as a spectator.

Third person novels leave you as a witness, unable to truly ?know? the characters and feel a strong kinship. Of course, the better the writer, the less your reading enjoyment is debilitated by that style, but it leaves you with the understanding you don?t live in a ?perfect world?.

The odds are decent you know this writer conducts a Creative Writing Class each week for the interested residents of Oceana community. You more than likely don?t know what goes on in the sessions each week and there?s an outstanding chance you have less interest in it than you do knowledge of it.

Still, you?re even less likely to be aware you?ve unknowingly been made part of it.

You probably assumed the title, ?Second Person?, referred in some way to homeless people, based on what you?ve read in these blog posts. You know by now if someone?s needs are to be considered, the homeless guy is always the ?second person? considered, following either the one doing the considering or whomever else is being considered. You certainly would?ve been inclined to feel, if asked after you?ve read only the title, the writer would be using this forum to proclaim the homeless person is always that ?second person?. You?d be inclined to think this writer would say the homeless will shift places many times until everyone else has been served, always remaining the ?second person?, until no others remained. You?d know, from these blogs, the homeless person only gets what?s left. The things others don?t want or need.

The further likelihood exists you wouldn?t know this post was also written for the students of that Creative Writing Class to illustrate the remaining persona, i.e., writing a novel in the second person. Just this short post will certainly make you aware the style is difficult, burdensome, and can be very boring.

But, you knew that part by this point, didn?t you?

I?m just sayin?.

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